Project Name: Cloud Retreat Hotel Long Nan Interior Design
Architecture Firm: Cocoon Studio Shanghai
Contact e-mail: cocoonstudio@126.com
Firm Location: Shanghai/Suzhou
Completion Year: 2022.12
Gross Built Area: 1426（Interior Design Part）
Project location: Yuzitan， Long Nan city, Gan Zhou city, Jiang Xi Province
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Lead Architects: Wang Weishi
Lead Architects e-mail: 3508436327@qq.com

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Design Team: Wang Weishi；Ding Chen； Li Ning； Chang Xiwen
Clients: Cloud Retreat Hotel/ Long Nan Yuzitan Hotel Complex Tourism Development Co., Ltd
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Architecture Design & Construction Drawing: Xin Hua Architecture Design Co., Ltd
Project consultant and general controller: Du Jiang
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A residence by Hakka Enclosed House

Cloud Retreat Hotel Long Nan Interior Design

Long Nan located in Southern Jiangxi Province is a city famous for Hakka Enclosed House heritage. The project is part of the Yuzitan hotel complex project which built several groups of courtyard hotel architecture next to the ancient Yuzitan Enclosed House heritage. Architecture design is unified to coordinate with the heritage while the interior design is open for imagination to different operators of each part. This project is the interior design of the Cloud Retreat Hotel part.

Color: An analogue of Enclosed House

The difference between inside and outside of Enclosed House is fascinating. In Yuzitan Enclosed House we can see a tall and silent defensive façade outside, but a living scale space created by wooden eaves inside. The normal life atmosphere is marked with a special red paint all around the inside façade. The red color which originate from the red earth of Ganzhou, constitute the cognition of settled shelter from nature and violence. This poetic colored inhabitation conception is rooted in local culture and history.

We adapt this color concept into interior design of the new buildings with Enclosed House form. The design uses a group of red color materials including red terrazzo, reddish-brown sandblasting cladding, collocate with rammed earth color paint, wood and black floor tile in an abstract way of masses and surfaces composing, build the basic structure of interior space,

The color strategy creates an analogue. The cognition of nature and inhabitation, the relationship between inside and outside space presented by color and material in Enclosed House heritage is brought into contemporary context, creating the dwelling experience only belongs here. The deconstruction and restructure of the color and space continues this experience into contemporary situation: The silent form of defensive façade collapses and the red inside space grow out from the openings to touch the nature, the sharp contrast create a new relationship between inside and outside with the memory of ancient cognition.

Space: A collage of dwelling experience

Different from common layout, we propose a longitudinal interior arrangement facing the landscape direction. By embed a red terrazzo mass accommodating variant living activities in between room and landscape, the design creates a complex dwelling space.
At ground floor, the exterior wall interface is expanded to a semi-outdoor in-between space. Combine with the descending terrain, the red terrazzo volume forms as the steps and out-door furniture. In ordinary room, this sunken place becomes a sitting and rest space where people can enjoy the mild climate of southern China outside the room. In the family suite, this red space is expanded to a long activity place, the relatively closed part forms as children play ground with sand pool and slide, the open part extend to the nature and forms a small pool facing mountain landscape.

At 2nd floor, the balcony is redefined. The red terrazzo volumes form as elevated platform, transfer the ordinary balcony to an attractive “bay window” space. In ordinary room, half of the balcony is brought into interior and form an elevated tea area. The descending eaves and elevated ground give the place a very comfortable scale in contrast with the height formed by pitch roof of the main house, this make the place a “room in room”, built a tea house inside the room. In the family suite, the elevated red ground form a seatable windowsill from inside, and a horizontal activity space along with descending eaves on balcony side. The space with the function of children sand pool and small swimming pool has several special openings to the landscape, creating a fascinating family room.

The abstract red terrazzo volume is collaged into the guest room space system as an exceptional element, redefine the perception of boundary, balcony and courtyard, creates imagination. On the line between nature and inhabitation, the abstract red creates a connection with contemporary experience but also ancient memory